Comment on Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear
batmaniam@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoyeah I anticipated wear, but with <2kg of material that seems excessive no? I did have some feed issues, but even with those resolved and it feeding nicely, I still have problems. A friend of mine did suggest that maybe with the feed issues I managed to do something that brought the nozzle out of spec and that’s why I’m getting issues.
you might want to check how tight the filament is before it goes into the system, like it was a popular trend to find a way to get your spools on bearings instead of free spinning, as that extra tension goes a long way to create problems.
Good luck, hope you can fix it without having to tear down the whole print head
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For reference I have an Anycubic s1 with 1,000+ hours on the brass nozzle and it was still fine when I changed it.
batmaniam@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thanks! This kind of insight is super helpful. Are you a poster here often? I was able to get decent prints again by changing the layer from 0.16 to 0.20. Still disappointed and confused as to what happened, but will probably keep the printer. Not sure if it makes sense to do a “wrap up” post for anyone else searching later.
Also: go team venture!
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Great to hear your prints are working again. Maybe extrusion problem and you need to hand tweak your flow rate for .16?
batmaniam@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Me to! I was almost done with a batch of prints for a friends fundraiser (30x hat looms for knitting. Great little project, they’re knitting hats for the premies at the NICU, so they needed a custom model for the tiny babys). I think you’re right. With the oozing and whatnot that has to be it. I brought up the fundraiser because it had me making multiple prints of the same file. When I found a setting that worked (moving to the 0.20), the first few worked, but were a bit stringy, but by the 3rd/4th one they were printing flawlessly.
I guess maybe when things got screwed up at 0.16 the nozzle had some funkiness, and with enough material it worked itself through? Still doesn’t explain why that brand new nozzle screwed up in the first place at 0.16 (which suggests the flow rate issue you brought up), but I’ll take the win.